An FBI background check blocked the sale of a weapon from a licensed dealer to the man accused of killing a teacher and a student at a Missouri school for the arts this week. Orlando Harris, 19, instead bought the AR-15-style gun he used in the shooting from a private seller, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch …
A 19-year-old gunman opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle and 600 rounds of ammunition Monday morning inside a Missouri visual and performing arts school, killing a teacher and a 15-year-old student. Four more students were shot and wounded, while two suffered abrasions and another fractured an ankle trying to flee the gunman, the St. Louis …
Raleigh police have released new details on a mass shooting that took place in a quiet neighborhood in the North Carolina capital just a week ago. A 15-year-old high school sophomore, Austin Thompson, remains hospitalized in critical condition after he was shot near the end of the 4 1/2 hour ordeal in Raleigh’s Hedingham neighborhood …
One of the victims was the 15-year-old suspect’s older brother.
A 15-year-old suspect is hospitalized in critical condition after a mass shooting in a bucolic residential neighborhood bordering the Neuse River Greenway of east Raleigh. Five people, including an off-duty police officer and a 16-year-old boy, were killed in the shooting, and two others were wounded, including another police officer who was treated and released. …
Update: The suspect is in custody. He is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. It’s not known if they were self-inflicted. Original story: Five people were shot and killed by a gunman Thursday in a Raleigh neighborhood perched along the Neuse River Greenway in the east of the North Carolina capital. One of the dead was an …
A self-proclaimed Ohio incel pleaded guilty this week to planning a mass shooting of as many as 3,000 women “out of hatred, jealousy, and revenge.” A federal grand jury indicted Tres Genco, 22, on charges of attempting to commit a hate crime and one count of illegally possessing a machine gun in July 2021, as …
On Friday, the Uvalde, Texas, School District suspended its entire police department amid criticism of their handling of May’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary that killed 19 students and two teachers. In a statement issued to the Texas Tribune, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District said director of student services Ken Mueller decided to retire …
Five people were found dead in a Maryland home on Friday, according to reports. WBAL reported that three children are among the dead, but their identities remain undisclosed. The Cecil County Sheriff’s Office said there is no ongoing threat to the public. According to Cecil Whig, the five bodies were discovered after police responded to …
One of the victims of Sunday’s grocery store shooting in Bend, Oregon, was a store employee who “died heroically” trying to disarm the 20-year-old gunman. Ethan Blair Miller shot and killed Safeway customer Glenn Edward Bennett, 84, in the front of the store before encountering employee Donald Ray Surrett Jr. in the back. “This is …
On Monday, a Texas school board said that school district police officers will return to work this fall despite not being evaluated for their response to May’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary that killed 19 students and two teachers. The school board explained that they never conducted a complete probe as they prioritized Uvalde Schools …
A Texas school board on Wednesday fired its district police chief, three months to the day after a gunman killed 19 4th graders and two teachers at a school under his purview. Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo was widely criticized for response to the shooting, in which dozens of police officers stood by …
